Our Wars
On David Harris, Our War (Random House, 1996) Today there exist tremendous and unprecedented possibilities for knowing the reality of our world just as it is, with all that it has in it of anti-kingdom…
An Unpayable Debt
Upon beginning Martha Hess’s book, Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam, I was immediately reminded of my late wife Mev Puleo who embarked on a similar project at about the same time as Hess….
Deep Listening
“I’m sorry. We Americans have never taken responsibility for what we did.” –Lady Borton Lady Borton worked for the American Friends Service Committee in South Vietnam from 1969-1971. A decade later, she assisted Vietnamese boat…
Hedy & Heine
The year after Mev died I read a lot of literature– Poetry, novels, plays One volume I took refuge in Was a bi-lingual edition of Heine’s Songs of Love & Grief I have a favorite…
Good Citizens/1
Dear Friends in the Sangha, I first encountered The Miracle of Being Awake (later published as The Miracle of Mindfulness) in 1982, when a monk from the Abbey of Gethsemani gave me a mimeograph of…
Latin America Reading Group: I, Rigoberta Menchú
This month we meet To discuss I, Rigoberta Menchú On Tuesday 29 January At 7 p.m. At Cafe Ventana Please join us!
¡Presente!
I received this email today from Marty King… I have pulled out my precious copy of The Struggle Is One, a present from Mev, inscribed to us. I cannot put it down, and am reminded…
Perspectives Taken from Latin America
Friends, Join us on Sunday 27 January to hear from SLU juniors Mary Shannon, Erin Twiehaus, and Julia Thomas, as they share about their times living in Latin America in 2012. Mary spent 6 months…
You Know Some People
#1 You know some people who are in a bind You know some people who are lost, big-time You know some people who are in the employ of socially approved psychopaths You know some people…
To a Friend in Africa
Opening your heart is like opening the door You don’t just have to fling it open every hour of the day That would be exhausting There’s a time to crack the door a little Take…